Getting Exposure Management Right: Insights from 500 CISOs

Pentera’s 2025 State of Pentesting survey of ~500 CISOs reports that exposure management is maturing but risk remains concentrated on web-facing assets (most perceived, tested, and breached), internal networks/endpoints/apps benefit from focused defenses with comparatively low breach rates, and APIs show a notable gap between testing and higher breach rates, revealing visibility and testing blind spots; the report urges continuous, adversarial testing and impact-aware prioritization to reduce the operational consequences of inevitable breaches.